1. Bell Work In your own words, what does “coming of age” mean?
Write your definition at the bottom of pg. 6 in your Springboard Book.

2. A writer’s (or speaker’s) distinctive use of language.
Voice
A writer’s (or speaker’s) distinctive use of language.
Can include diction, syntax, and imagery

3. Diction Word choice intended to convey a certain effect. Example:
-You CAN clean your room!
-You MIGHT want to clean your room!
-You WILL clean your room!

4. Syntax
The arrangement of words and order of grammatical elements in a sentence
The way a writer puts words together to make meaningful elements, such as phrases and clauses
Greek prefix syn=together
Rook tax=arrangement or order
Examples: synthesis, synonym, taxidermy

5. Imagery
The words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses

6. Tone
A writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject. Tone is conveyed through the writer’s choice of words and details.
Example: “Don’t use that tone with me!”

7. Bell Work-Activity 1.3
Write your full name at the top of a sheet of paper in your composition book. Write about your name. What does it mean? Why was that name chosen? Would you change your name if you could?

8. Compound Complex Sentence
A sentence that has two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses
Example: I was my parents’ first joy, and in their joy, they gave me the name that would haunt me for the rest of my life, Immaculeta Uzoma Achilike.

9. Direct Quotation -represents a person’s exact words
-are enclosed in quotation marks
-Example: Then she asked me, “Immaculeta Ulzama Achilike, do you know what your name means?”

10. Indirect Quotation Restates the general meaning of what a person said
Quotation marks are not used
Example: She asked whether I knew what my name means.

11. Bell Work
What does the title “Cut” make you think about? What do you predict this text will be about?

12. Protagonist
-main character who initiates actions that move the plot along
-Greek prefix proto-first
-Greek root agon-contest or struggle
-Example: Prototype, protocol

13. Simile
-comparison of two different things or ideas
-uses like or as

14. Hyperbole -Deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration.
-Serious or comic relief

15. Prose -ordinary written or spoken language
-uses sentences and paragraphs
-without deliberate or regular meter or rhyme
-not poetry, drama or song

16. Point of View
-refers to the perspective from which a narrative is told
-1st person-I
-2nd person-You
-3rd person-he, she

17. Periodic Sentence
One that makes sense fully only when the reader reaches the end of the sentence
-emphasizes the idea in the main clause by making the reader wait for it
-Example: Then, as the last couple of weeks of school dragged on, the city of Paterson becoming a concrete oven, we labored like frantic Roman slaves to build a banquet hall.

18. Cumulative Sentence
One that makes complete sense if brought to close before it’s actual ending
Example: Her “senator” looked uncomfortable, glancing around at his buddies, perhaps waiting for the ridicule that he would surely get in the locker room later.

19. Balanced Sentence
-ideas of similar weight are expressed in similar grammatical structures or lengths.
Example: …I read and understood Camus’ statement about the subject: if love were easy, life would be too simple.

20. Bandwagon
Advertisers make it seem as if everyone is buying this product, so you better buy too
“The best car of the year is here…all your friends and neighbors are driving one…”
How does this make you feel if you don’t own the car?

21. Avant-garde The reverse of bandwagon
Makes the product seem so new, you’ll want to be the first to own it
Example: ???

22. Testimonials Celebrities used to endorse products
Pay Attention-sometimes the celebrity never says they use the product

23. Transfer Pay attention to the background
Transfers what is important to all to the ad
Example: politicians and their families, flags, etc.

24. Bell Work
Silently re-read page 73 in your Springboard book. Highlight important information while you read.

25. Rhetorical Appeals
Emotional, ethical, and logical appeals used to try to persuade an audience to agree with the writer or speaker.
-Pathos, Ethos, Logos

26. Pathos Def: appeals to the reader’s or listener's senses or emotions
Root word: path: which means suffering
Example: pathetic , empathy, sympathy

27. Ethos Focuses on the character or qualifications of the speaker.
Appeals to someone’s ethics.

28. Logos
Attempt to persuade readers or listeners by leading them down the road of logic and causing them to come to their own conclusions.